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Corporate Traveller opens fifth office in capital
Corporate Traveller UK has opened its fifth office in London after hiring eight new operational teams and increasing annual turnover by £35m to reach £200m over the last 12 months.
It said growth had been driven by a surge in new business since July 2013 as the company has won an average of 70 new UK clients per month.
The bulk of these new clients have been gained after Corporate Traveller recruited 27 additional business development managers, boosting its UK sales team to a total 65 BDMs, it claimed.
Based close to Waterloo, the new flagship office in London has 25 consultants but has capacity for a total 60 staff. The company has other London premises in Clerkenwell, Farringdon, Vauxhall and Wimbledon.
The addition of Waterloo brings the TMC’s total number of consultants to 245 across 18 locations nationwide.
Plans are also in place to open a sixth office in the capital within the next 18 months as Corporate Traveller continues with its ambitious target of total £240m turnover by June 2015.
"Our staffing model whereby a number of small operational teams are based together in one location providing expert personal travel services to SMEs locally has been is one of the secrets of our success," said UK general manager Graeme Milne.
"Each team is made up of a maximum six consultants. Rather than expand a team as new business comes in, we set up a new team. The amount of new business we have won over the last year, particularly in London and the south east, meant that we had run out of operational space in our existing offices, hence our expansion into substantial new premises at Waterloo."
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